Dealing with standardization of Bitcoin-related topics, such as terminology or protocol.
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Why does Bitcoin-QT have no HELP File? [closed]
The HELP menu is totally feeble. 3 entries: Debug window, About Bitcoin, About QT.
For QT developers perhaps the idea of an actual HELP file is a whole new concept they've never been taught.
In ...
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Bitcoin URL scheme
What is the URL scheme that is used by Bitcoin to copy transaction information directly into the client? Which versions of Bitcoin clients support it?
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Bitcoin Best Practices by the Bitcoin Foundation
The Bitcoin Foundation's Executive Director, Peter Vessenes, in his open letter states that the Foundation is aiming to
Publish a set of best practices for businesses transacting in Bitcoin, ...
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Is the value of “satoshi” fixed or dynamic?
BitCoin Wiki (Transactions) states:
...1 BTC = 100,000,000 Satoshi...
Yet BitCoin Wiki (FAQ) states:
..."satoshi"... is smallest denomination currently possible
In the future when the ...
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What is the preferred way to denote orders of magnitude in BTC?
If I have 36,235.97 BTC, would I shorten that by writing that I have 36.2k BTC or would I write 36.2 kBTC?
It seems that latter is proper for SI units, while the former is used more often for money, ...
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Which programming languages support secp256k1?
Which programming languages have some ready libraries that support Bitcoin's ECDSA curve - secp256k1?
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Bitcoin Dictionary
Is there a website that aggregates all technical and jargon terms used by the Bitcoin community? In other words, is there some compact reference guide that could serve as a "Bitcoin Dictionary"?
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What are Tonal Bitcoins?
What are Tonal Bitcoins? In what application is this system of notation superior to the decimal notation? Are there any clients or other services supporting the tonal system?
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Script - OP_PUSHDATAs
When using OP_PUSHDATAs in different Scripts, how are the next bytes denoting the amount of bytes to be pushed encoded? Are they to be treated as unsigned integer, or signed (like the data that is ...
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Version field in transactions, blocks, etc
A field labelled "version" appears in many contexts regarding the Bitcoin protocol. Sometimes one uses the current version of the Bitcoin client (version message), sometimes 1 is used (block, tx), why ...
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Why does the Bitcoin protocol use the little-endian notation?
Why does the Bitcoin use the litte-endian notation? It is less common than big-endian notation, thus when programming low-level applications working with Bitcoin protocol, one quite often has to ...
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Where should one suggest new terminology?
What is the proper place to suggest Bitcoin-related terminology that one believes should be used by the community? For example, when one wants to standardise some terms people use to describe ...
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What is the collective name for Bitcoin, Namecoin, etc?
Is there some standard term to describe all Bitcoin-like internet currencies, like Solidcoin, Namecoin and so forth? Like "currency" is to dollar, euro, yen, etc?
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Bitcoin grammar
Should "bitcoin" be used as a countable noun admitting a singular and a plural (so that one says "600 bitcoins are in this wallet") or as a mass noun, (like "water" or "money") (so that one says "How ...
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What is the standard protocol for pools/miners?
The Bitcoin client protocol is well documented in the Bitcoin Wiki, but I can't find much on the protocol used by pools and miners. Is it described anywhere?
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What is a good way to concisely explain Bitcoin?
Often I'm asked to explain Bitcoin to someone and occasionally I come up with something stellar that really nails it, but most times it's a rambling incoherent mess.
What I would like to see is a ...
